ABSTRACT
HEINE has familiarized the modern world with an imposing feature of Jewish home life in the 'middle ages. The Jewish home was a haven of rest from the storms that raged round the very gates of the ghettos, nay, a fairy palace in which the bespattered objects of the mob's derision threw off their garb of shame and resumed the royal attire of freemen. The home was the place where the Jew was at his best. In the market-place he was perhaps hard and sometimes ignoble; in the world he helped his judges to misunderstand him; in the home he was himself.
